A should have been railway
In the imaginary world of Port Dinllaen Lines, we get to indulge our interests and one of mine is signalling. Now this is an area arrife with nit-picker-dom, so I took the precaution of submitting my plans to the Oracle…
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I have always wanted an excuse to include at least one engine from the “missing” region – Southern. And so, when a Battle of Britain class loco, 603 Squadron, along with a rake of 6 Festival of Britain Pullmans was…
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Now that the last of the backdrops have been installed, I am doing research for the scenery that we want to represent. In the back corner, I have a place where the narrow-gauge slate quarry line disappears (to conceal its…
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As we progress to building the backscenes, there are three corners to consider the treatment of. I want them to have a rounded section to reduce the obviousness of the sharp corner, but to minimize the loss of space I wanted…
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I was sorting through some old stuff recently and came across the original sketch of the PDL systems. Although I was eventually going to use XtrackCAD to plan the system I find that paper and pencil works best for concepts…
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We modelers are holding good at holding reality at bay most of the time. We model vanished or fictitious worlds (or both), we use cunning and guile to disguise the reality that, even at scale, our models are not a true facsimile, but only…
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Well, I got what I hope was the final (short) bug out of the wiring and so trains can now run around the entire layout. Lots of track cleaning is needed from glue spots and the like. My Class 09…
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The last module is wired! It was the PD throat – with 28 Cobalts, two BlocD8s a hex juicer and two dual juicers. The picture shows progress at the halfway stage when all the motors were wired for testing but…
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When I place all the point motors, I find that things have sometimes moved since I drilled the holes for the actuators. So work is needed, but the track is down. So the technique I use is to use a Dremel…
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